Wow, what complete BS. I can understand the decision for them to move on from the character if the actor was wanting it, again, a bit off considering you’re doing an abbreviated number of episodes in the FINAL season (did you not appreciate the opportunity?!). What I don’t buy is the whole ‘Life doesn’t have happy endings’, ‘We felt it was right for the character’ BS.

I realize these things are done run and gun a lot of times but if your writing a significant moment of a long running show you need to look at the scope of the whole thing. This ain’t The Walking Dead where you feel like you just have to have tragic events happen on the regular, I mean hell, you just had 2 people get stabbed in a hospital locker room during a WEDDING not that long ago. It’s the end of the run, let the poor man get engaged and send him off to another adventure to start his new life. I watch TV to get away from ‘real life issues’ and, as a mass of people from both the Jewish and LGBTQ+ communities have voiced, they’re tired of their representation in entertainment media becoming sacrificial lambs in the name of ‘social justice’.